Science Fiction: A form of imaginative fiction in which scientific facts, assumptions, or hypotheses form the basis of adventures in the future, on other planets, in other dimensions of space or time, or under new variants of scientific law.

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CHARACTER LIST FOR PART 1 READING:
Time period: 1980 (five years after the spaceships' arrival).
Supervisor Karellen
The Overlord (alien) in charge of the project on Earth. He’s the only one to communicate with humans.
Rikki Stormgren
Secretary General of the United Nations when the aliens arrive. He’s the “go-to man”, meaning he’s the only human to have any communication with the head Overlord alien.
Alexander Wainwright
Clergyman who is opposed to the Overlords’ rule. He is the figure head/leader of the Freedom League, a religious group formed for peaceful opposition of them.
Pieter VanRyberg
Stormgren’s assistant

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